What skills + tools can geography give me?
Though this list is far from exhaustive, here are a few examples of things you might take away from a geographic education:
- Project management + organization
- Creative problem-solving
- Mapping + cartography
- Photogrammetry
- Online mapping
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
- Remote sensing:
- Radar and satellite imaging
- Aerial photography
- Lidar and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS)
- Surveying
- Slideshow creation
- Visual communication
- Slideshows
- Research
- Data analysis
- Reporting
- Persuasion
- Graphic design
- Basic writing: grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary
- Note-taking
- Academic writing
- Storytelling
- Journalism
- Proposal writing
- Presentation writing
- Data visualization
- Adobe Creative Cloud:
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Acrobat
- HTML/CSS
- Print design
- Layout
- Microsoft Office
- Google Drive
- Spreadsheets
- Database Management
- Programming
- JavaScript
- Stata
- R
- Python
- Data Research
- Data mining
- Data presentation
- Data engineering
- Database management
- Data and metrics interpreting
- Spatial statistics
- Creativity
- Theorizing